Rochester Contemporary Art Center’s newest show, “It’s Not Funny,” brings together local, national, and international creators who use toys and humor as raw materials for art that expresses serious subject matter. Bright colors and familiar playthings draw viewers and create a wry dissonance when the makers’ meanings sink in. The show brings together a variety […]
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Community marches for economic and racial justice
Community members marched on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination to stand against racism and to fight for an end to poverty-level wages. A group of nearly a hundred marched from Joseph C. Wilson Foundation Academy on Genesee Street through the surrounding neighborhood, eventually ending at the academy for a town hall style […]
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Fruition Seeds focuses on locally adapted food and flowers
Petra Page-Mann, co-owner of the organic seed packet company Fruition Seeds, has saved seeds since she was a child, working alongside her father in his garden in Naples. Saving seeds “was just something we did every year, and I didn’t think much of it,” she says. Almost two decades later, she realized it was not […]
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Revel in the details: John Kastner’s consumer hell
Rochester-based illustrator John Kastner’s work is rooted in a deep concern with the environment. He’s become known for the social criticism he injects into his chaotic cartoon realms in gouache on matte board. His newest work, “Filthy Animal’s Plasticrap,” incorporates plastic trash he’s picked up on walks to and from work. And leading up to […]
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‘Finding Home’ art program spotlights refugees
Amid news this last weekend of a second bomb threat to the Jewish Community Center of Greater Rochester — and the third case of anti-Semitic hostility in Rochester in recent weeks — Deborah Haber is pushing onward to finalize plans for a series of arts events that will be held this month at the JCC […]
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Developer eyes gap on Pittsford waterfront
Wilmorite wants to build office and retail space, as well as an 80-room boutique hotel with a spa and restaurant, on Schoen Place.
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WALLTHERAPY brings crochet artist Olek to Rochester
WALL\THERAPY didn’t host its annual summer street art festival in 2016 for various reasons. Founder Dr. Ian Wilson has been busy launching his own private practice, Rochester Endovascular, and in April the team sent five Rochester artists to work with Urban Nation in Berlin. But organizers say the festival will be back this summer, taking […]
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Women artists take on the world at Main Street Arts
The bulk of art history is a testament to what man makes of his experience in this strange mortal coil. But Main Street Art’s current exhibit, “Trying to Understand the World,” reveals two examples of the female gaze — one is a literal look at the sights of the city, and one is storytelling based […]
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Michael Hubbard gives tunes for the times at Hartnett Gallery
Michael Hubbard is a skilled painter, but he’s also a maker of books, films, and themed mixtapes. Oh, and he’s also a feminist. Hubbard’s women in music themed show, “Eleven Love Songs,” currently exhibited at the University of Rochester’s Hartnett Gallery, is a wonderful tribute to fierce female artists and revolutionaries throughout history and around […]
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Rochester protesters strike defiant tone
Sunday’s rally in Washington Square Park was both a moment of catharsis and an act of defiance against President Donald Trump for his immigration ban, enacted by executive order on Friday. The order temporarily bans citizens of six Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States: Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia, Yemen, and Iraq. Syrian immigrants are […]
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Photo Gallery: Rally draws opposition to Trump’s ban
Hundreds of protesters filled Washington Square Park on Sunday to voice opposition to President Donald Trump’s move to ban immigrants from several mostly Muslim countries from entering the United States.
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Renaldi pictures the ‘Manhattan Sunday’ at Eastman
Photographer Richard Renaldi’s new body of work, “Manhattan Sunday,” which opened at George Eastman Museum on Friday, straddles the lines between portraiture, street photography, and still life. Featuring photographs made on eerily empty Manhattan streets in the wee hours after the clubs let out, the work also captures the blurred lines between nightlife and daybreak, […]
